{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:31:03.702Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"That day let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"That night let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 3 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 3](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}